There are no 'heavy hitters' in the republican party. It's a party without core beliefs. The only policy position you can count on is, if President Obama is for it, the republicans are against it.

It makes me think that the president should come out for huge tax breaks for the wealthy, increased defense spending, wars in at least four more countries and drastic cuts in social programs in order to get legislation that he likes.

So, what George, he of the bow tie, is saying is that Mr. Romney should pick as his vice presidential running mate someone who Will wished would of run for president instead of the lackluster crowd that did.

For all the conventional wisdom in the past year that President Obama would be a long shot to be re-elected it seems like most of so anointed 'heavy hitters' of the republican party surprisingly opted to stay on the sidelines.

Of course a contrarian view is that most of the actual republican candidates, like Rick Perry, were once viewed as conservative heavy hitters until they actually got into the race where they promptly flopped.

I guess by definition then you are only a conservative heavy hitter if you are sitting on the sidelines and are not in the race. The fantasy is always better than the reality.

So what Mr. Will is saying is to put someone with some conservative pizzazz in the VP spot just like John McCain did with Sarah Palin.

You've posed a false question Mr. Hanson. The Great Depression was ended by massive deficit spending by our government in order to finance and conduct World War II. Much of our economic dominance in the late 40's and early 50's is much more related to the fact that the economic base and infrastructure of Japan and much of continental Europe lay in a pile of bombed out twisted ruins, than can be attributed to our superior entrepreneurial spirit.

Consumer demand, pent up by the Great Depression and four years of war, exploded once the GI's got home. As we were the only major manufacturing country left standing, we serviced our consumer demands with our own products. Boom, more jobs. G.I. Bill. Boom, more educated workers to hire. More people with jobs, more marriages-more marriages meant more babies which meant more houses for more families.

So, it wasn't a all one or all the other situation. It was a combination of the government and the private sector and a unique set of historical circumstances that created the America of that era that I grew up in.